The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-04-30
The News of the Week

! A TeIre llaute Judge has decided that
the marriage Of first cousins in Indiana Is
illegal, and void without legal proceedings
On friday night wind.storm passed
about mile north OF Mt Carmel, Ill,
killing two persons and causing about
s50,0OO damage 10 farm buildings.
A new game law has been passed by the
legislature making 1t unlawful 10 kill prai'
ri. chickens quail or pheasants for period
OF five years
On Sunday a collision of train OF flat
cars, loaded with lsborers, and wild en-
zine on the L. p. railroad, in Washington
Territory, killed six men and wounded Is
others.
Senators Fassett and Reilly, Of the New
York State senate, were participants In
disgraceful row in the senate last week,
They INDUCED In all sorts of ungentle'
manly mudslnging.
An incendary fire occurred at Lockport
last week. Three barns belonging to
Messrs. Chiisey, Shafer and Emery, we're
entirely consumed, and Mr. Arnolds fine
residence narrowly escaped.
The New York WJaM is very fierce in
is opposition to the land grabbers and the
CORPORATION LAND steals of the west 1t has
kept up It's battery for some time, and Its
attacks are we'll timed and meet with uni
yerssl approval.
General George Sheridan delivered a
lecture on the Eth inst, at Washington,
in contradiction of Col. lngersolps intidel
views He spoke well, and, judging from
the New York Stars account, he gave
utterance to some very strong logic as OPP.
posed to infdelity.
Mr.. l.. Soule, Michigan Central freight
agent at Joliet, WAS surprised with large
surprise party at his office last week, and
was given an elegant gold watch by the
elm ployees of the freight department. The
occasion WAS Mr.. Soules leaving the office
to enter other business
Galena miners complain that the inter.
state commerce bill will increase the rate
of frelghts on zinc ore TO La Sale, the
principal market about 81 q ton, which
| will have the effect to put an effectual stop
10 that industry hereaboyts as II can not be
protitably mined and shipped at that rate.
The novelty of using petroleum for fuel
on locomotive has been introduced upon
the London n Brighton railway. AS yet
its use is only an experiment to test the
economical and efficient properties of this
means oi generating steam. The oil is
Injected by steam into the furnace and
produces white heat, generating steam
rapidly,
! On Friday the breaking up of the ice In
the lake, and gorge near Montreal, sud
denly flooded large part of that city on
the water front. The Nuns Island in the
river Was the worst sufferer, and much
damage was done their furniture and stock,
many of which We're lost, In the city all
lower lands were flooded, and vast damage
done TO stocks Of goods, animals, etc.
On Friday last wind storms devastated
portions of Missouri kentucky and
Arkansas. In Missouri the damage was
greatest near Nevada, where many houses
and buildings were blown down, and about
IS persons killed. The same story is re-
peated in Arkansas. though with less loss
of life In Kentucky, near Paris, the
storm WAS less severe, though there was
considerable damage done.
On Saturday evening the old Riverside
Hotel familiar to all travellers into Chicago
over the C.. Il. n Q. road, was burned, a
drunken tenant having thrown lighted
kerosene lamp at his wife's head, setting
fire to the building. The building was
erected In 1879 by the Riverside Company
AT a cost of $4,000, and was considered
worth Of late about $4,000 1t was never
a successful investment and OF late years
had been used rs a tenement house.
The Grand Lodge of the A. o. u. w. of
Illinois has been In session at Galesburg
this week. Some $50 delegates were pres
emit During the past year 81 new lodges
have been instituted making total of $40
lodges in the State The present member.
ship Is 1880, a net gain of 1911 over last
year The number initiated during the
year was 1854. There have been l51
deaths To beneticiaries S27S,345 has
been discussed. The total amount of
claims is nearly $3So00,00O. The grand
master in his annual report makes several
important Recommendation One of these
will tend to discourage the instituting of
any more lodges In Chicago That city
now has 62 lodges, having total member,
ship equal to nearly one-third of the entire
membership of the state. The grand mas.
ter also discoursges the receiving of those
into charter mem bership who are engaged
In distilliBg or the saloon business. He
also recommends each lodge to put aside a